Duchess, my Ragdoll kitty, thinks she’s hiding from me…
Do you have a hidden sin? Something you don’t want anyone to know about?
We cannot hide. God has “placed our iniquities before Him, our secret sins in the light of His Presence.” Psalm 90: 8 “You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time; but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time!” Abraham Lincoln
t has been said of compromise that “we are too Christian really to enjoy sinning and too fond of sinning to enjoy Christianity. It is no mystery, most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do, our trouble is that we do not want to do it.” (Peter Marshall) “The instances are exceedingly rare of man immediately passing over a clear marked line from virtue into declared vice, addiction and corruption. There are middle tints and shades of concealed concessions between the two extremes; there is something uncertain on the confines of the two empires which they must pass through, and which renders the change easy and imperceptible. (Edmund Burke)
Hidden sin is cosmic treason. (R.C. Sproul) One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a CREAM PUFF INSTEAD OF A RATTLESNAKE! Sin is not being lost in others…the other choice is selfishness. “By nature, I was too blind to see him, too proud to trust Him, too obstinate to serve Him, too base-minded to love Him.” (John Newton)
There are many kinds of “hidden sins”. They will ultimately destroy the offender and those connected to him They are thought to be hidden because we think no one knows. Our excuse…’it is not affecting anyone else’’; hence, it is acceptable. It has been rationalized, justified, marginalized and cloaked in deceit. There is only one problem…God always knows…there is nothing hidden from Him. (Rev. 22:12) Also, we are living letters known and read by all men (II Cor. 3:3) and even the least discerning uncovers the truth, eventually. No one can get away with sin. It is sure to find you out.
“But we have renounced (“turned away from”) “the things hidden” “(secret sins, immoralities, drunkenness, hypocrisies, and the sins hidden deep within the darkness of one’s life) because of shame (ugly or disgraceful), not walking in craftiness (deceitfulness) or adulterating the words of God but by manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.” 2 Cor. 4: 2
To maintain a habitual hidden sin is to announce, “I do not fear God. He will not hold me accountable; I am the exception to the biblically stated rule; I am my own God! Satan doesn’t care what we worship, as long as we don’t worship the only true God! Moody
~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America. Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California. My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights.
